Improvement in wire fences



J. 'A-.- LITTLE.

Wire Fences.

No.140,147, Pmmdxune 24,1873.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JAMES A. LITTLE, OF CARTERSBURG, lNDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WIRE FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 140,147, dated June 24,1873; application filed t October 12, 1872.

To all u-hom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES A. LITTLE, of Cartersburg, in the county ofHendricks and Stateof Indiana, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Fences; andI do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to' the annexed drawings, making a part ofthis specification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figire l of the drawings is a representation of an elevated view of myfence 5 Fig. 2 is a section of the same.

This invention has relation to fences having wooden palings secured tohorizontally stretched wire; and it consists in the novel constructionof a portable bracket to support the weight of the fence, substantiallyas hereinafter described.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the wooden palings secured tothe horizontallystretched top and bottom wires B, by means of thin wire(l wound spirally around the wires B, and passed around the palings inloop, form as shown. D designates the fence posts designed to be placedat a considerable distance apart. The ends of the wires B pass throughsaid posts, and also through cleats F, and, beingthreaded, have nuts Gturned thereon. To tighten the wires B wedges H are driven between theposts and the cleats. l designates pins projecting from the posts, andcorresponding to holes in the cleats. These pins act as guides, and alsoas supports to relieve the wires of strain. J designates short postsplaced at intervals along the line of the fence underneath the lowerwire, supporting the latter, and secured thereto by means of staples K.K denotes a portable bracket, composed of the two crossed and pivote-dbraces L, and the transverse connecting-bar L. The latter is pivoted toone of said braces, and secured to the other by a pin, a.

The bracket is applied to a fence by taking out the pin a, placing theupper forked part of the bracket under the upper wire, and thenconnecting the bar L', by means of the pin, to the proper brace. Thecrotch of the bracket supports the upper wire B. The barL has a notch,b, in its under side, which ts over the lower wire and prevents it frombeing bent laterally.

The brace, through which the pin a passes, has several holes a' to admitof the bar being adjusted to suit the height of the lower wire.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The portable bracket K', composed of the crossed pivoted braces L.having the piu c and holes a', and the pivoted connecting notch-bar L',used in connection with the fence as described, and for the purposespecified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES A. LITTLE.

Witnesses:

D. D. KANE, PHIL. C. MASI.

